North Korean Nuclear Test Threatens World Peace

American satellite intelligence seems to confirm the strong likelyhood of preparations for an underground nuclear test in North Korea. Satellite intelligence notes construction of a tunnel similar to one constructed in Pakistan prior to it's nuclear testing as well as the construction of a reviewing stand for military and North Korean Communist Party dignitaries to view the event.

While Pakistan's nuclear missiles such as the Ghauri, Ghauri II and Ghauri III are based on derivatives of the North Korean Nodong and two stage Taeodong 1 missiles, North Korea actually may have received help from Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the father of Pakistan's nuclear program. Under interrogation, Dr. Khan admitted that he did indeed offer help to the North Korean scientists involved in it's nuclear weapons program. So both North Korea and Pakistan have been involved in cooperative missile and nuclear technology exchanges and helped to build up each others nuclear weapons systems. China helped by suppling nuclear reactors of which nuclear material was spun off from the Khusab and Chasma reactors.

This escalation of nuclear terror can be blamed in several factors. If North Korea can escalate fear in Washington, it can press for financial rewards in a form of extortion ploy. But on the other hand a real potential for nuclear problems could result from fear of North Korea having the Kin Jong Il government toppled like Iraq by the United States, so the nuclear weapons programs becomes a form of "insurance policy" against invasion. This is the most dangerous part of this escalation of nuclear weapons on the Korean peninsula. And worse it could also interest many states in Africa or other developing areas to acquire North Korean nuclear technology or missiles as an insurance policy against U.S. invasion like Iraq. In fact Iran probably will press ahead with it's nuclear ambitions for just this very reason.

The Bush Doctrine to make the world a safer place by an aggressive program to invade and "liberate" governments like Iraq, Iran, Libya , Syria domination of Lebanon, Sudan , Liyba and Somalia has not only run into a wall by the steady insurgent war in Iraq. But it has increased the likelyhood that many developing nations may seek to acquire nuclear weapons to protect their nation against any U.S. intentions to change their government by the aggressive Bush Doctrine. However after Iraq has deflated the Bush wars of "liberation " plans , still many nations feel that nuclear weapons offer their best hope against this aggressive foreign policy. Reality says that wars of "liberation" are probably an abandoned policy because of the Iraq disaster, yet many nations of the world do not have fully rational leaders. In Sudan for example, a radical government commits genocide against Christians to move them off the land so that a cooperative business venture with a Chinese oil company is allowed to prosper. If a government is so irrational to do this, the possibility to use some of these Chinese oil revenues could go to buy North Korean nuclear weapons in the future. The posibility of many very bad governments with nuclear arms could grow in the near future.

Last Sunday, North Korea tested a new short range missile designed for export in the Sea of Japan. Korth Koreas's largest exports are weapons sold around the world, not automobiles or VCRs like South Korea. And in the reviewing stand for the nuclear test to come within days in North Korea no doubt more than a few foreign nations interested in North Korean arms may well be in attendance. This could be the real danger here. Many of the smaller and less honorable governments of the 200 nations of the world with a nuclear weapons arsenal someday. Far less safe days may lay ahead of the coming nuclear testing in North Korea for this very reason.